Even I, upon first listening to this project around the end of 2016, dismissed these lyrics as edgy, repetitive, or maybe even annoying.īut it’s when these lyrics are further explored, and given more context that the emotion all truly comes to fruition. This is especially apparent now, particularly on tracks like “OMFG” with the main hook being ”I used to wanna kill myself / Came up, still wanna kill myself // My life is going nowhere / I want everyone to know that I don’t care,” or the opening and closing lines of the following track, “The Song They Played…,” serving as a subtle cry for desperation, with the main lines being ”I don’t wanna die alone right now, but I admit I do sometimes / These drugs are calling me / Do one more line, don’t fall asleep”. While the lyrics that bluntly come off as just teenage angst and drug glorification at initial listens, they start to manifest themselves into genuine, subtle cries for help. Lil Peep knew how to write songs that could break into your head, and with Hellboy, he used this talent of his to make the longest, most ambitious full length released in his lifetime. I would argue this is essentially the emotional pre-cursor in the minimalistic/entrancing wave of trap, later spearheaded more psychedelically by Playboi Carti, rather than the minimalism being an unintentional fault. The reason a lot of people don’t like the sound(s) that Lil Peep has to offer mainly comes down to his minimalistic approach to song structures, containing usually 1 (occasionally 2) verses, with a hook that rings either 2-4 times, depending on the track. Tracks like “OMFG”, “The Song They Played (When I Crashed into the Wall)”, and the Underoath-sampling title track all feature guitar-based samples that Peep, along with his producers, all come to warp into one unique, grandiose sound.That, and the lightning-in-a-bottle effect of when + how Hellboy was recorded, is what made Hellboy his first project to genuinely make waves, whether for praise or pure loathing. Everything is held together by an impeccable producer-lineup, featuring Nedarb, Yung Cortex, Smokeasac, and Charlie Shuffler, among others With all of this at play,there’s no way this project will ever have anything to really compare it to. Those previously mentioned negative aspects are overshadowed by Peep’s presence, or Lil Tracy’s vocals, and KirbLaGoop’s (whom i would die defending, by the way) overall polarizing delivery. The production from Nedarb (who is definitely Peep’s most consistent producer) is ethereally lifting, and Peep’s hooks ring like an anthemic joyride. But at the same time, I can’t even say that “Drive-By” is a bad track though, even with the awkward feature. In fact, the only real drawbacks from this record come from some of the features, mainly Horsehead’s shameless lack of charisma on “Girls” and the near swerve off of the road that is Xaviur Wulf’s boring and lyrically dense feature on “Drive-By”. While his earlier mixtapes perfected the atmospheric emo lyrics with sludgy, teamSESH/Bones inspired vocal deliveries (particularly LiL PEEP: Part One), and then the minimalistic sample-flipping beats paired with a new melodic vocal energy found on Crybaby nothing before could have ever predicted the splash that Lil Peep made when he was swimming through the muddy, lean-fueled epitome of everything that was Lil Peep, with the project Hellboy. It’s genuinely difficult to introduce Lil Peep as anything other than extremely polarizing, to say the very least. But we also added an archive that we will add to regularly so visitors to our site can see some of Gus’s artifacts to get to know him better, as a person.Review Summary: The ultimate culmination of everything that encompassed Lil Peep, becoming the sole standard project for Emo-Rap that so many copycats have tried to replicate, but never reinvent. We wanted to make beautiful designs and things for people wear, skate on, and generally “flex” to show their support for Gus. You connected with him because he told you that he was like you, and he expressed feelings like the ones you have. We felt that Gus’s fans-both current and future, would welcome the chance to get to know him a little better. So, to honor him, we created this website. Gus was particularly observant, and able to express his observations clearly and poetically. It was Gus’s honesty that compelled so many people, worldwide, to connect with him. I have learned from Peep fans that Gus was a powerful and influential lyricist and music artist. This website is run by Gus’s mom and brother. This is the official website of the Estate of Gustav Elijah Ahr, who came to be known by his fans as “Lil Peep.”
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